Re: nohz and strange sleep latencies

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Nov 24 2007 - 17:39:58 EST


Hi!

> > > but perhaps somehow we miss this fact and fail to turn off the lapic
> > > clockevents drivers?
> >
> > Ok, I guess I'm lost. If I offline second CPU, I immediately get
> > 1000Hz timer tick... is that expected?
>
> Hmm. No. I have no idea why this is happening.
>
> 34196 total events, 55.083 events/sec
> echo 0 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
> 36073 total events, 54.679 events/sec

Digging into process_32|64.c...

64:
while (1) {
while (!need_resched()) {
void (*idle)(void);

if (__get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state))
__get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state) = 0;

tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick();

32:
while (1) {
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick();
while (!need_resched()) {
void (*idle)(void);

if (__get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state))
__get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state) = 0;

...eek? Which one is wrong?
Pavel

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